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Be Sure To Visit Our Booth at the Fair.
THE CORRECT
STYLE
IN NEW FALL SUITS
Our new suits for fall are here in
all the latest styles and patterns, all
tailored by New York’s best Manufac
turers. They are new shades of brown,
greys and blues. Made in two and
three button models—
$25.00 t0 $47.50
Some With Two Pairs Pants
BLANTON-WRIGHT
CLOTHING CO.
“SHELBY’S BEST MEN’S STORE.”
ITTLE gTAR
—Suttlrs Return—Mr. and Mrs.
Oscar M Suttle wil return to Shel
by today from Texas where they
have been spending three or four
months visiting lelativcs in Corpus
Christi, San Antonio and other
points. Their many Shelby friends j
are glad to learn of their return, j
—Carlos Grigg Sells—Carlos Grig;’
has traded his two story brick home
on the Cleveland Springs road to
Mrs. Kate North for approximately
$13,500, including a house and lot
on N. Washington street and a va -
cant lot on S. DeKalb street, be
longing to Mrs. North.
—To Speak—O. Max Gardner, it :
is announced, has accepted an invi- ]
tation to speak in Ashevilel early j
next month at the dedication oi a
new stadium there to Asheville s
World war dead. The program in
cludes a football game between
Furman and Presbyterian college
—Banks to Close—Thursday aft- !
ernoon will be another holiday in I
Shelby with the local banks because !
of the county fair, now going on at
the fair ground. All local banks will
be closed Thursday afternoon and
the public is asked to bear this in
mind.
—Weather Warm—Fair week
started off yesterday to be really
fair with a warm sun shining
throughout the day. The mercury
climbed up 20 points to prove a
welcome asset s to proprietors of
drink stands. At mid-week of last
week the mercury flopped to 58 de
grees, but Tuesday afternoon had
climbed back to 78.
—Stokes Beauty—Miss Willie Lou
Crowder, 21-year-old daughter o'
Rev. and Mrs. E. N. Crowder of Wal
nut Cove, was recently proclaimed
"Miss America” of 1927, the most
beautiful girl in Stokes county.
Miss Crowder’s father, Rev. E. N.
Crowder is a native of Cleveland
county and has filled many pulpit;
throughout the county.
—Smith a Delegate—G. C. Smith
an official of the local post of tire
Patriotic Order Sons of America is
in Richmond, Va., and Washington.
D. C., this week attending a meet
ing of the national convention of
this order. Mr. Smith is a delegate
from North Carolina. He was ac
companied by Mrs. Smith and to
gether they expect to return Thurs
day or Friday.
—Was Not Stolen—Mr. G. F. Shu
ford, of Bessemer City, who came
here to attend Federal court as a
juror, experienced a right pleasant
surprise following an unpleasan;
one earlier in the morning. Mr.
Shuford parked his car near the
court square and returned 30 min
utes later to find it missing. He re
ported it to the police department
and for a time it was thought the
car was stolen. Shortly thereafter
Mr. Shuford found his car around
at the other side of the square
where he left it. He was merely
J mistaken about where he had
i parked last.
Our idea of a hard-boiled custom
er is a neligible bachelor who has
successfully resisted the sales ef
forts of a hundred attractive wo
men.
EARLIEST SNOW IN 38
YEARS IN SIOUX CITY
Sioux City, la., Sept, 26.—Snow,
coming the earliest in the thirty
eight years of the local weather bu
reau's history, fell here today. It
was the first snow Sioux City ever
had in September.
Urges Old Time
Breakfast Food
The state board of health stands
flat' footedly for the old-fashioned
breakfast, declaring that the par
takers thereof have al lthe best of
it in records for punctuality and
efficiency.
"As school time again is with us,
we find many children neglecting
breakfast in the rush to get 10
school on time," says the board,
"Some persons deliberately accus
tom themselves to do without break
fast in order that they may regu
larly have a few extra minutes in
bed.
"Adequate sleep is absolutely es
sential but so also is adequate food.
Burning the sandle so late at night
that gettipg up in the morning is a
task, is proof that the system is not
getting adequate rest and relaxa
tion. If, in addition to inadequate
sleep, the body is deprived of food
in the morning, a double injury is
done.
"Investigation has repeatedly
proved that there is a much high
er rate of absence from work and
from school among those who go
without breakfast than those who
regularly eat an appropnate break
fast.
“There are two factors accounting
for this. One is that doing without
breakfast decreases efficiency to
the extent of inability to go to work
Another explanation is that the
person too lazy to get up in time to
eat breakfast is so lazy that it re
quires little excuse to remain away
from work.
“What is even more noticeable is
that fact that the great majority
of the children who are chronically
tardy are the ones who come with
out breakfast.
"Those who get up too late to
eat breakfast often get up too late
to get to school or to work on time.
“The experience of all time has
proven that human beings get.
along better when the necessary
aggregate amount of food is taken
in three or four meals at regular
hours with equal intervals.”
PERSONAL?
I Horni' folks you know »j
on the go.
Mrs. H. T. Hudson spent Sunday j
in Sanford.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Nash spent
Tuesday and today In Asheville.
Mrs. T. W. Hamrick has return
ed from a delightful visit to At •
Lanta.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sherrill and
children of Charlotte are guests of
Mr and Mrs J. D. Linebcrger.
Miss Bobbie Williams and Miss :
Dickie Hall were Charlotte guest , !
of friends on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. John McKnight and
Miss Helen Dixon spent the week- j
end in Greensboro.
Mr. and Mrs. Rollins and two
daughters, of Forest City, were
Shelby shoppers on Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Clayton PSe’.er. for
merly of Shelby, now living at Higa
Point, spent yesterday here attend
ing the fair.
Prof. Robert C. Miller spent the
week-end at Morganton at the D
and D. school where he formerly
taught.
Miss Margaret Williams leaves
Monday for a visit to friends and
relatives in Atlanta and other parts
of Georgia.
Miss Attic Mae Eskridge is vis
iting Miss Thelma Mass this week
in Weaversville. Miss Eskridge ac
companied Miss Moss home after
her visit to Shelby.
Mrs. Rob Laney and young son
of Monroe, are visiting Mrs. Laney .1
parents, Mr. and Mrs. John R.
Dover.
Miss Ella McNichols and sister,
of Charlotte, arid Miss Etta Beverly
left today for a motor trip to Phil
adelphia to visit relatives.
COTTON MARKET
Cotton was quoted at 10:30 today
on New York exchange.
October 21.70; December 21.87,
January 2,20. Yesterday’s close Oc- !
tober 21.40; December 21.66; Janu- i
ary 21.71.
New York. Sept. 28 —Raining las' :
night at Oklahoma City. Ft Smith j
and Palestine, cloudy central, clear '
cast, forecast east Texas, cloudy,
rain in south portion today, warni
i er northwest portion tomorrow,
west Texas part cloudy. warmer.
Arkansas rain east portion, Missis
sippi and eastern belt showers.
The average crop estimate of 2.
040 replies to Theodore Price is
12,749.000 bales. Texas figure is 4.
285.000. Oklahoma, Mississippi and
Georgia million each, North Ctfro
lina 857,000, South Carolina 761,000.
Arkansas 932,000 and Alabama 904.
000. The average price expected ij.
23 1-8.
The Journal of Commerce weakly
review is bullish on Oklahoma an4
Texas crop made progress north?: a
part of central and eastern district^
but in lower two thirds it is only
question of saving cotton already
made.
Prospects are for only a limited
! top crop except in northeast Ar
1 kansas. west Tennessee, upper Ala*
I bama, north Georgia, and part oi
; Piedmont section of Carolinas. ;
Favor long side on soft spots.
Be Thin To Enjoy
Old Age—Doctor
Surplus Weight And Long Life
Simply Do Not Go
Together.
Arc you one of those who
consults the table of normal
weights as you stand on the
scales—anticipating a steady In
crease in weight ^as you ap
proach and pass middle age?
If so, you are told to beware
by Dr. Leonard William of New
York who has given the subject
of weight more than a little
study, and who would upset
many of the old ideas on the
topic.
The tables are apt to tell you thr.t
at a certain height you should
weigh 147 when 25 years of age.
and at 50 your weight should be 162.
It is a dangerous falsehood, says
the doctor, who declared a man
need not and should not weigh more
at 50 than at 25, and if he docs
weigh more he is apt to die sooner.
One pound or two pounds added
to the weight on a horse's back may
make him lose a race. Fatty tissue
is for the purpose of storing up
energy. In primitive days, when
man went long between feeds, he
needed to store up energy in this
way to carry him over. With abund
ance pf food, and perfect system of
distribution as we have today, no
plus fat is surplus baggage,
such provision is required, and sur
Imagine the handicap put on an
old heart, old lungs, and old kid
neys by adding 20 or 30 pounds at
50! Dr. Williams says it would be
better to find what your "normal
weight” is supposed to be, then re
duce 20 pounds below it, displacing
muscle, connects on the heart as
well as the abdomen.
Men old in years and great in in
tellectual power, Voltaire, Rockefel
ler, Van Moltke. Pope Leo, were
almost living skeletons when they
did their best work, and were at
least 20 to 30 per cent below nor
mal weight. Most every one could
live well and longer on one-haif
what he now eats. Remembers "the
lean horse for the long race.”
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Denies That Smoking Adds To Baby
Mortality—Discusses Female Smokers
New York,—Health Commission
er I. Harris said he disagreed with
the statement credited to Dr
Chauncey L. Barber of Lansing.
Michigan. at the convention of the
American association for Medico
Physical Research tn Chicago, that
60 per cent of all babies born ol
cigarette smoking mothers die be
fore they are two years old. primar
ily because of nicotine poisoning.
"While the excessive use of cig
arettes or other forms of tobacco
undoubtedly may be injurious to the
heart and blood vessels of those sus
ccptible to nicotine, furfural and py
ridine bases. Iam sure that no
scientific proof or Justification has
yet been brought forward to sub
stantiate the alarming statements
attributed to Dr Barber
"The use of tobacco does not act
in quite the same way on different
individuals While I believe a great
many men, as well as women, are
smoking to excess and that a pro- |
portion of these may be storing up
furture trouble, I am opposed to
generalization of an alarming char
acter.
"There are many who find smok
ing compatible with health, if it be
done in moderation. Talking from a
strictly medical standpoint, Judg
ment in each particular case must (
depend on a study of that person
and his or ner reaction to tobacco.
I have never heVd of any babies
who died because their mothers
smoked tobacco.
"In my private practice I ha\r
advised persons not to smoke be
cause of the specific effects of to
bacco upon them, but there are
some who can smoke with perfect
immunity."
New York specialists also took is
sue with Dr. Baber, accoiding to
the Associated Press.
“It is certainly exaggerated." saia
Dr. Charles Hendee Smith. "Many
mothers today smoke, and most of
the babies do not die. Although I
have no definite statistics concern
ing the offspring of smoking and
non-smoking mothers, my experi
ence has been that a good many
healthy and husky babies are born
by mothers who use cigarettes. On
the other hand. I have seen manv
fragile and weak babies bom by
mothers who have never used to
bacco.
“I don't mean to say I think it a
good thing for women to smo
he continued, “but a statement that
attributes 60 per cent of the infant
mortality to mothers who smoke u
very far from the truth."
"I think the infant mortality
rate in New York is about 5 in 1.000
and surely 60 per cent of these
deaths cannot be laid at the door of
cigarette-smoking mothers," he de
clared.
Dairy Cow Has
Good Influence
On Land Values I
Land values throughout the Unit
ed States, as a whole, have declin
ed approximately 30 per cent dur
ing the past seven years, or since
1 the 1920 census was taken. It should
also be remembered about three -
fourths of the capital wealth of
American farmers is tied up in land
values, and that a 30 per cent de
flation in land values is identical
with, and in fact is, the cancelling
of nearly 23 per cent of the total
capital wealth of American farm
ers.
In studying the statistics as com
piled by the agricultural census of
1925. it is very noticeable that land
values have declined least* where the
most livestock IS found on the
farms, and that in spite of an aver
age 30 per cent 'decline for the
country as a whole, in a, few inten
sive dairy sections the land values
are shown to be equal to' and above
those as reported , in 1920 for the
same areas.
The greatest Reclines are found
in the strictly cotton growing sec
tions of the South and the cash
grain-growing sections of the centra)
West. This is the age old story that
exclusive cash crops farming Is not
a stable agricultural practice.
On the other hand. the great
dairy sections comprising the New
England states and as far south ns
Virginia, through New York, Penn
sylvania. Northern Ohio, Michigan
and Wisconsin land values have
held their own and in some cases
increased over 1620 values.
CLOSE TRAIL ON
SHOOTING SUSPECTS
While two men. Rural Officer
Henry Moaely and Romeo Padgett,
hung between life and death here
Tuesday, an aftermath of the liquor
battle Monday morning, the rural
police force settled to a relentless
search for Charlie Padgett and an
other man known to them only as
"Red,” according to Tuesday's
Charlotte News.
The confusion of the day before
had cleared and Chief Vic P. Fes
perman declared that he had in
formation which he expected to
lead to the arrest of one or both
almost any hour.
Officer Moseley was reported at
the Presbyterian hospital as hav
ing passed the night in much bet
ter condition than had been ex
pected. It was said, however, that
the great danger of one in his con
dition might be expected after
three or four days. Bullet wounds
in his abdomen pierced the intes
tines in fourteen places and gran
grene was feared.
Romeo Padgett, charged with
shooting t{ie officer, was in Mercy
hospital and he, too, had success
fully battled for life through the
night. He had a bullet wound near
the heart.
Officer Lacy Fesperman was at
his home in Dilworth with a pain
ful wound on the back of the skull
where he had been clubbed. Any
fracture, it was said, if any, was so
slight as to make it probable that
he would improve steadily.
Officer A. N. Goforth, who car
ried on a fierce two-gun battle with
the attackers in the darkness,
wounded each cne and saved the
lives of his two companions and
remained, himself, unhurt, went
about his business Tuesday as if
nothing had happened. He a pc par
ed as a witness in county recorders
court and then went home to sleep.
He is a night man and sleeps in the
day.
Denied Bond
Frank Jones, at whose house on
Commonwealth Avenue the fight
took place Just before dawn Mon
day, remained in jail Tuesday, de
nied bond until the circumstances
become better known. His wife, sis
ter of Romeo and Charlie Padgett,
was confined likewise in the county
jail They were not permitted to
communicate with each other.
Officers Fesperman, Moseley and
Goforth capture'. Charlie Padgett
and 58 gallons of whisky in Gray
son Park early Monday morning
He asked that they take him by
Jones’ house on Commonwealth
Avenue so that he could notify his
people to arrange his bond.
Fesperman and Moseley took the
prisoner in the house and Goforth
remained outside with the liquor.
The request was supposed Tuesday
by the police as a ruse to lead the
officers into a trap. Romeo Pad
gett and another, called "Red” were
described as coming in the room
with drawn guns. Fesperman was
clubbed over the head with his own
gun and Mosely was shot through
the abdomen. They got through the
door and Officer Goforth shot it
out with the attackers. He shot
Romeo Padgett in the heart, Char
lie Padgett in the arm and it is be
lieved that he shot the third man
in the side.
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ANNOUNCEMENT SOON
The valuable Mrs. Zulia Green
Corbett property is now offered for
saleL This property is at the northeast
corner of Court Square extending 400
feet between Washington and DeKalb
streets and 200 feet on North Washing
ton street.
Submit your offer to—
MR. & MRS. W. C. CORBETT
HOUSTON, TEXAS, Or
B. T. Falls, Attorney, Shelby, N. C.
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lars into this strong bank that you may handle your
dollars safely through a Checking Account or have
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If you have in mind the making of some invest
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vice in selecting that which is safe and sound.
It pays to use this bank and, under the exper
ienced guidance of men who know how best to han
dle all financial matters, you are assured of a ser
vice so well worth while that your business trans
actions are carried through with safety and a saving
of time and effort.
HAVE WE LEARNED A I
LESSON?
Two hard farm years should have taught
everybody a lesson. But have they ? Time only can
tell. If you see a man banking his money this fall
and saving for future needs next year, you can giva
him credit for wisdom and experience, but, look outt
if he goes on a SPENDING SPREE this fall you
may be sure “HARD TIMES” will soon come back
to him and his lesson was not learned.
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